Students in Divisions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are preparing songs to share at the Intermediate Choir Festival.
This is a Burnaby District run event for Burnaby schools only.
The purpose is to share music, learn singing techniques, learn some harmony singing, proper breath control, proper posture, increase listening skills and capacity, express oneself through music, improve audience etiquette and performance etiquette. We will also get to work with, and be critiqued by, an expert choir director, Cassie Luftspring. Check out her biography below. This is a great opportunity for the children to learn some skills that Ms. Karlson may not be able to teach them or that they have not had time to work on during music class. They will also be able to watch a high school choir sing and listen to Ms. Luftspring work with that choir on more advanced techniques.
We will be sharing two songs at the festival, and then singing one song “en masse” with the other choirs that attend.
We are singing:
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Shenandoah
Together We Are by Brian Tate
Our group will be singing on Tuesday, April 23rd at 9:15am at the New Westminster New Reformed Church. We will walk over to that venue to attend. We will meet at the school at 8:50am on April 23rd, walk to the church, sing, and then be back at the school by lunchtime.
Click on the grade 4/5 tab above for more information or videos with which to practice our songs.
As a professional choral singer, Cassie is a soprano section leader with the Vancouver Bach Choir, and has performed with various local groups including Musica Intima and the Vancouver Chamber Choir, with Bay Area Chamber Choir Convivium, and with the University of Toronto Schola Cantorum. A seven-time winner of the Amadeus Choir’s Songwriting Competition, her compositions and arrangements have been commissioned and performed by ensembles throughout North America. A recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and Fellowship in Music, Cassie holds a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the University of Toronto, and a degree in piano and composition from Queen’s University.